February 2013
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Turning Around
Finally, back.
My friend is a part of a Women’s Writing Workshop. Every February they host prompts for a workshop where the goal is to write every day for a month. Whether you write a few sentences, a poem, a blog post, a short story, a journal entry - just write. It’s been too long since I have typed my thoughts. These days I fall back to pen and notebook, if I find the time to...
June 2012
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Senior Year of Life + The Top Ten Things I Learned...
photo credit: werwin15
Many years ago I read a book about a group of friends who, upon graduating college, referred to that next year as their “Freshman Year of Life”….and so forth. I told this to a girlfriend of mine when we were in the trenches of “holy crap what we are going to do with our lives after we graduate?!” and it become a sort of therapeutic mantra for...
May 2012
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Mom's Words of Wisdom
The best (or at least my favorite) advice my mother ever gave me:
Life is stressful, and we are stressed….
{image from the beyond delightful blog, frenchbydesign, combining my love of all things french + inspirational quotes + yummy looking food + interior design}
but ultimately stressed is just desserts spelled backwards!
There are very few things that a couple deep breaths and...
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Written rituals
This weekend I had the joy of meeting some fellow women of the social media world for lunch. To be truthful, they are all women I admire. As we chatted - about work, social media, tech conferences, pregnancy and men - I asked the group a simple question about my blog.
I just don’t think I am sure exactly what I am supposed to be writing about. I don’t have a mission statement or...
April 2012
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“Most people spend their whole lives running away from things that have never...”
– I honestly wish I could remember where I found this quote originally. A good friend reminded me of this sentence the other day, it is something I used to have written in the corner of bulletin board in my old room at my parents’ house. It is something that truly resonates with my heart.
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Girls Rule, and I Found the Ads to Prove It
I think it’s fair to say that I am passionate about all things to do with supporting women (I get to spend my days working with some extremely driven and intelligent women here). Another thing I love? Clever marketing campaigns. I recently came across an article on Fast Company recently that perfectly combined the two, and it is just too good not to share.
The article is called “The...
March 2012
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The Memory Project
I wish I could say that I came up with this idea all on my own because it is freaking fantastic. But I didn’t. I originally came across this idea through pinterest aka the land of all ridiculously crafty ideas. A woman named Holly published this blog post about a birthday surprise she put together for her dad’s 60th birthday. She knows her father was sentimental, and that nothing means...
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Facebook Changes, Insight from Mitt Romney &...
This morning I watched the Facebook live streaming media conference, announcing the official launch of timeline for pages. I personally thought the whole presentation felt a little motivational-speaker/wannabe-rockstar. *sidenote: was I the only one envisioning a drinking game for every time they used the phrase “mission control”?
But, I think the changes have some serious...
January 2012
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Love Bill Gates, Hate Cancer
I can admit it - I’m a huge sucker for Bill Gates. Don’t get me wrong, Steve Jobs = amazing mind, incredibly moving speaker. But the reason I am more inspired by Bill is not really due to technological innovation (though maybe that is deep down why I still love my PC and refuse to go Mac), it’s about his commitment to the world.
I just sat down and read his Annual Letter. I...
Excuses aka what the heck i've been doing this...
Is it too soon to pretend I just took a hiatus from my blog? Yes? Okay, I thought so too. One of my (predictable) resolutions for the new year is to actually write on this dang thing once a week. Hoorah for January 1st creating a compulsion for self development. I also have a list of on or around 26 other goals for the year. But I will spare you and myself all of those.
Instead, here is a list of...
December 2011
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That time I decided to teach myself about...
Tonight I watched a free webinar in an attempt to start learning something about SEO, something I am interested in for both work & personally. I’m surprised at how much I actually learned already, the main part being that there truly are a crap ton of free tools that exist everywhere on the internet you just have to be smart/sneaky enough to find them or know about them. I figure it is a...
Moving, damage control & bed spreads that look...
This last week has been a complete blur of boxes, car troubles, pie, and more boxes.
Moving day went pretty smoothly, except for when my new and also used car broke down for what seems like the millionth time since I bought it maybe a month ago. This car has not seemed to have a week go by where something doesn’t make noise/fall off/break/etc. The tall one says we might have to sell it and...
November 2011
2 posts
Salt Water
I’ve always liked this quote. I just wish it felt true today.
I have a friend who is fighting with cancer right now. I wish salt water would help.
i could be a blogger
Why not?
I have thought about blogging for a long time, or writing in general to be honest. I love to write and used to journal all the time. I still do sometimes - and every time I sit down to write in my paper journal I have a little ritual. I go through and read the last entry I wrote, and then the one before that. It is an amazing way to learn about yourself. To see yourself through your own...
